Nothing feels better than putting pen to paper (or fingers to a keyboard) and just letting your thoughts flow. There is something so satisfying about sitting down to write for no particular reason and for no particular audience. Just writing for yourself is the best type of writing, and I personally have always found writing a form of relaxation and relief from the world around me. I find that the most relaxing thing is to be able to just write with no intent and to let all of your worries out on paper.
This semester in my creative writing class, my professor gave us the hard task of creating our own short story. The story could be about whatever we wanted, there was no page count, and she didn't care if it was finished or not. When I got the assignment, I was both excited and nervous, mainly because I had no idea what I was going to write about, but loved the thought of creating what I wanted. There aren't very many times in your college career where you are free to do whatever you want with the assignment, so that is why I had a hard time figuring out where to start. I loved the fact that I finally could write a piece with no boundaries, and I wound up having a really fun time writing it. Once I started typing, my fingers wouldn't stop.
Writing is freeing in that way. When you really feel passionate, the words just flow from your brain to your fingers and to the paper ever so effortlessly. Creating a piece of writing is like a song being sung, flowing naturally with no stopping.
What I would like to do is challenge anyone and everyone to start writing more often. Even if it's just a small journal or typing on a Word document, writing just a little bit every day or once a week will probably relieve a great amount of stress. Writing is a really good way to vent your issues without having to burden anyone with your problems. For people who like to keep things built up and don't like to vent to people, writing is the best way to air out your problems without any stress. Even if your write something short, or something with grammatical errors, or something for no reason at all, it's better than nothing. This form of art is an amazing way to relieve stress or anxiety and I suggest everyone to give it a try.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
